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Nonprofit organization
Empowering women survivors of all forms of abuse
Creative, safe, healing space
Podcast | Speaker
Storytelling and The Arts
Denver based

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What happens when survivors are given space to write, reflect, and listen to themselves?This piece emerged from BWCC’s F...
06/10/2026

What happens when survivors are given space to write, reflect, and listen to themselves?

This piece emerged from BWCC’s Finding Your Voice Creative Writing Group during an exploration of the “Inner Rebel”—the part of ourselves that knows who we are beneath expectations, labels, survival strategies, and noise.

One of the things I continue to witness in this group is that healing isn’t always about becoming someone new.

Sometimes it’s about remembering who you’ve been all along.

Shared with permission. Posted anonymously.

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06/10/2026

Sometimes the hardest person to have compassion for is ourselves.

In this clip from today’s episode of Brave Hearts Speak, Alys shares a powerful realization she had while working with her sponsor.

She believed she lacked compassion for women who stayed in abusive relationships.

What she eventually discovered was something much deeper.

The judgment she felt toward others was rooted in the judgment she still carried toward herself.

I think many of us can relate to that.

Sometimes the places where we are least compassionate toward others reveal wounds we haven’t fully healed within ourselves.

🎙️ Alys’s episode is now available wherever you listen to podcasts.

Listen today and discover why her story of recovery, healing, accountability, and self-compassion is one of the most powerful conversations we’ve had on Brave Hearts Speak.

06/08/2026

Most of us were never taught how to be with fear.

We were taught to avoid it.
Distract ourselves from it.
Push it away.
Wait for it to disappear.

But what if fear isn't the problem?

In this week's upcoming episode of Brave Hearts Speak, Alys shares a simple but powerful lesson she learned from her therapist.

Instead of running from fear, she began practicing something different:

Feeling it.

Allowing it.

Trusting that it would move through her.

What she discovered was that fear became less powerful when she stopped fighting it.

This conversation is about healing, recovery, courage, and the small shifts that can completely change the way we move through life.

🎙️ New episode featuring Alys releases Wednesday, June 10.

If you know someone who is facing a difficult season, share this clip with them.

Sometimes the bravest thing we can do is stay present with what we're feeling.

One of the women in our Finding Your Voice Creative Writing Group recently explored the idea of her “Inner Rebel.”What e...
06/08/2026

One of the women in our Finding Your Voice Creative Writing Group recently explored the idea of her “Inner Rebel.”

What emerged was this beautiful realization:

“Not only does my Rebel know me best, it is the best of me.”

I continue to be amazed by the wisdom that emerges when women are given space to slow down, reflect, write, and listen to themselves.

Sometimes healing isn’t about becoming someone new.

Sometimes it’s about reconnecting with the parts of ourselves that have been there all along.

Shared with permission. Posted anonymously.

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06/05/2026

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Today I am incredibly grateful to welcome Melissa and Kaylin to the Advisory Board of The Brave Women’s Community Center...
06/05/2026

Today I am incredibly grateful to welcome Melissa and Kaylin to the Advisory Board of The Brave Women’s Community Center.

What makes this especially meaningful is that I first met both of them through Brave Hearts Speak. They each shared their stories with extraordinary courage, vulnerability, and generosity in the hope that their experiences might help another woman feel less alone.

Since then, I have had the opportunity to build relationships with them and have come to deeply respect their perspectives, wisdom, and commitment to helping others heal.

As BWCC continues to grow, Melissa and Kaylin will help advise us on storytelling, survivor-centered programming, and the emotional considerations involved when women choose to share their stories publicly.

I often say that the people I most want helping guide this work are those who have walked through fear and found their way forward with integrity, humility, and courage.

Melissa and Kaylin embody those qualities.

Please join me in welcoming them to the BWCC family. We are better because they are here. 💜

This week in our Finding Your Voice creative writing group, we explored the word: REBELLION.Not rebellion as breaking ru...
06/04/2026

This week in our Finding Your Voice creative writing group, we explored the word:

REBELLION.

Not rebellion as breaking rules.

Not rebellion as becoming hard.

Not rebellion as fighting everyone around us.

But rebellion as asking:

Who gets to define me?

Who benefits from the story they've created about me?

What expectations, labels, guilt, and obligations am I still carrying?
Through writing, we explored the possibility that rebellion might be something quieter.

The courage to say:

"I get to decide who I am."

What does rebellion mean to you?

How could I have wanted more for myself when I never understood that I was more?In this episode of Brave Hearts Speak, A...
06/03/2026

How could I have wanted more for myself when I never understood that I was more?

In this episode of Brave Hearts Speak, Alys shares her journey through abuse, addiction, incarceration, motherhood, recovery, and healing.

What makes her story so powerful isn't that she has all the answers.

It's her willingness to tell the truth.
The parts many people would rather leave out.

Together we explore the stories we inherit about love, the patterns we repeat without realizing it, and what it takes to break cycles and create something different.
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This is ultimately a conversation about bravery.
The kind that asks us to look honestly at ourselves, take accountability, and learn from our experiences.

🎙️ New episode available June 10.

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06/02/2026

Applications are now open. ✨

For a long time, I’ve dreamed of creating a space where women survivors could come together—not simply to tell stories about what happened to them, but to discover what is possible beyond it.

This August, that dream becomes reality.

Thanks to funding from RedLine Contemporary Art Center’s Arts in Society Grant, The Brave Women’s Community Center is launching:

🎭 When Fear and Bravery Collide 🎭

A year-long survivor-created theatre project for women in the Denver Metro area.

Together, participants will explore therapeutic improv, movement, voice, storytelling, creative writing, leadership development, and collaborative theatre creation. Along the way, a documentary film will capture the journey.

You do not need theatre experience.

You do not need to be a performer.

You do not need to have everything figured out.

You simply need curiosity, courage, and a willingness to explore what might happen when creativity and community come together.

The women in this photo attended our first information session, and seeing them gather, laugh, connect, and imagine what could be created together made me even more excited for what lies ahead.

💜 Applications are now open.📍 Denver Metro Area🎭 In-person✨ Participation is free

Our next information session is June 20th.
Apply Here: https://bravewomenscommunity.com/fear-and-bravery-collide

05/29/2026

I was never taught boundaries. I was never taught about consent. I was never taught about grooming.”

When Katie Moore went to trusted adults for help, she thought she would be protected.

Instead, she found herself sitting in a room with her abuser.

This week’s episode of Brave Hearts Speak explores what happens when the very systems we are taught to trust fail us—and how survivors begin reclaiming their voice after years of confusion, shame, and self-doubt.

One of the most heartbreaking realities of abuse is that many women were never taught how to recognize grooming, coercion, or manipulation in the first place.

They were taught to be nice.
To be agreeable.
To trust authority.
To doubt themselves.

Katie’s story is about much more than one institution.

’s about what happens when a person loses trust in their own instincts—and what becomes possible when they begin reclaiming them.

🎙️ Listen to Katie’s full story on the latest episode of Brave Hearts Speak.

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